New bath taps!!

Three weeks ago, the cold tap on the bathtub stopped working.  First, when you turned it on, only a dribble of water came out and then when you turned it on, no water came out at all!  Last Friday the plumber came with new taps to put in!  (they had to give a quote to the landlord first, and then buy the taps)  

Now, here's the weird thing.  On most bathtubs, the hot water tap is on the left (closest to the sink here) and the cold water tap is on the right (next to the wall here).  My bathtub - nope.  Other way round.  Then when he got the side panel of the bath off, he found the hot water tap copper pipe leaked.  Tried fixing it - nope.   Put new pipe gizmo thing in.  Here's another weird thing.  The cold water tap copper pipe is in Imperial measurement pipe.  The hot water tap copper pipe (that's now a new pipe gizmo) is metric measurements.

But we have shiny new taps now and they both work a treat!!!!!

Currently in use stress relieving radox bubble bath and Kew Gardens lemongrass and lime shea butter soap.

Lovely....

We Made Soap!!

At the weekend, Andrea showed me how to make a Bar Of Soap!! First we had to heat up some water in a saucepan

Then we got a couple of "Almost Finished" bars of soap from the bathroom and cut them into bits. We also got out a plastic Gadget that Andrea said was Very Important.

When the water was simmery, Andrea turned off the heat and put the soap bits in the water.

We then put a plate on top to keep the heat in, and left it alone for ten minutes.

After that, we poured the water out and put the softened soap bits inside the Plastic Gadget!

We had to squish it all down a bit!

Then we put the lid on and Andrea said I had to jump on it to squish everything down!!!

That was fun but a lot of hard work! (Even Andrea had a go at squishing!!)

Then we took the ends off, and saw that the soap had all squashed together!!

We have a new Bar of Soap!!